![]() ![]() ![]() In the mid-nineteenth century, when the first women’s colleges were founded, arguments raged over whether women should study such difficult subjects as advanced mathematics, Greek, and Latin. In College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Coeds, Then and Now, a cultural history of women’s higher education, Lynn Peril emphasizes how something that we mostly take for granted today-that women should have the same education as men-was a hotly contested notion even as recently as the 1950s. ![]() These days, nearly sixty percent of all undergraduates are women not only are most colleges coed, but dorms and even bathrooms are too. Step onto the typical college campus, and it’s hard to imagine that not so long ago women wouldn’t have been allowed to study there. ![]()
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